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The 1937 Ohio River Flood That Swallowed Louisville

In the winter of nineteen thirty-seven, it began to rain along the Ohio River, and it did not stop for weeks. The river swelled higher and higher, past every record anyone had ever kept. In the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the water kept rising until seventy percent of the city was underwater.

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